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SEN. LEVIN OPPOSES MUKASEY NOMINATION
US Fed News, November 8, 2007 Thursday 1:10 AM EST
The office of Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., issued the following statement: Statement of Sen. Levin Opposing Mukasey Nomination: Tonight the Senate will vote on the nomination of Judge Michael Mukas...
| STATEMENT OF SEN. LEVIN OPPOSING MUKASEY NOMINATION States News Service, November 8, 2007 Thursday The following information was released by Michigan Senator Carl M. Levin: Tonight the Senate will vote on the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to be Attorney General. His nomination comes at a crit... |
| I can't believe it's not torture! Salon.com, October 26, 2007 Friday Early on I suggested the Republican presidential primary should be titled "Who wants to be a waterboarder?" because of the way the leading candidates (save John McCain) were competing to be the tortur... |
| Editorials on the CIA destroying terror tapes The Monitor (McAllen, Texas), December 11, 2007 Tuesday The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Tuesday, Dec. 11: DESTROYING INTERVIEW TAPES NOT WARRANTED Nothing about the CIA's explanation for destroying videotapes of the interrogation of... |
| The CNN Wire: Tuesday, Nov. 6 CNN.com, November 6, 2007 Tuesday 4:53 PM EST Federal judge allows detainee abuse suits to continue against defense contractor WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. District Court judge Tuesday allowed two lawsuits to go forward against a U.S. defense contr... |
| Dishonor; Advocating torture Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), November 4, 2006, Saturday AMERICANS want their nation to be moral and honorable - but this desire is undercut when the White House keeps seeking the right to torture. First, President Bush started the Iraq war on bogus pretext... |
| Torturing logic: is pulling fingernails really just an aggressive manicure?; Columns Reason, March 1, 2006 I NEVER IMAGINED, immediately after 9/11, that four years later wewould be having a debate on whether and how much the United States should torture prisoners--or that the Bush administration would wag... |
| Thumbs-down on the Mukasey vote Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2007 Tuesday Re "Mukasey all but a shoo-in for approval," Nov. 3 If senior senators have deep concerns about Michael B. Mukasey's nuanced stance on torture and his expansive view of executive privilege, why do the... |
| McCain Wins Agreement From Bush on Torture Ban; The president gives in to the former POW and a bloc of GOP senators to accept the formal policy. Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2005 Friday After resisting for months, President Bush caved in to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday and said he would accept a formal ban on the cruel or inhumane treatment of detainees in U.S. custody anyw... |
| U.S. denies ignoring charges of torture; 'Record has improved,' official asserts The International Herald Tribune, May 9, 2006 Tuesday In the second day of an exchange with its human rights critics, the United States on Monday denied giving light punishments to service members and intelligence officers who carried out torture since t... |
| Torture row as Minister backs the use of 'simulated drowning'; By Jason Lewis. The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 12, 2006 THE Government's policy on torture was in turmoil last night aftera Minister claimed 'simulated drowning' could be legal in some circumstances. It fuelled suspicions that Downing Street is turning a b... |
| TORTURE ROW AS MINISTER BACKS THE USE OF 'SIMULATED DROWNING' MAIL ON SUNDAY (London), March 12, 2006 Sunday THE Government's policy on torture was in turmoil last night after a Minister claimed 'simulated drowning' could be legal in some circumstances. It fuelled suspicions that Downing Street is turning a ... |
| U.S. delegation faces UN panel; Committee Against Torture listens skeptically to explanations The International Herald Tribune, May 6, 2006 Saturday A delegation of American officials came before a United Nations panel on torture Friday to account for the conduct of the United States in the fight against terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001. The America... |
| Tying Our Hands Investor's Business Daily www.investors.com, December 19, 2005 Monday Intelligence: Is torture ever justified? For weeks, Congress has agonized over the question, finally answering "no." But what message do the terrorists take from it? It started with Abu Ghraib and tho... |
| U. Maryland professors to testify on torture for lawmakers University Wire, December 10, 2007 Monday What is torture? It's been a contentious question that Congress, courts and the White House have debated as the nation has reacted to torture allegations at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. |
| DEMOCRATS LINE UP WITH BUSH ON TORTURE THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, November 29, 2007 Thursday Every Saturday, the president of the United States gives a radio address to the nation. It is followed by the Democratic response, usually given by a senator or representative. This past Saturday, the... |
| Art and Abu Ghraib The Toronto Star, November 24, 2007 Saturday The man doing the waterboarding is a strangely disengaged torturer, representing either cool professionalism or emotionless evil. The abusers are portrayed as army boots on the back of the abused, lat... |
| TALKING TORTURE Santa Fe Reporter (California), October 31, 2007 - November 6, 2007 FULL TEXT A so-so film inspires real-life questions. Rendition concerns the "extraordinary rendition" of Egyptian-born Anwar El-Ibrahirni (Omar Metwally), who is suspected of ties to a Middle Eastern t... |
| Squeamish beware: Church to air Abu Ghraib film Inside Bay Area (California), October 27, 2007 Saturday A slim, dark-haired woman grins at the camera. She perches over a corpse wrapped to the neck in what appears to be plastic sheeting. His mouth gapes. She gives the camera the "thumbs up." This is Abu ... |
| Squeamish beware: Church to air Abu Ghraib film: Anti-torture group uses documentary for petition The Oakland Tribune (California), October 27, 2007 Saturday Oct. 27--A slim, dark-haired woman grins at the camera. She perches over a corpse wrapped to the neck in what appears to be plastic sheeting. His mouth gapes. She gives the camera the "thumbs up." Thi... |
| Congregations screen Abu Ghraib film Contra Costa Times (California), October 24, 2007 Wednesday A slim, dark-haired woman grins up at the camera. She perches over a corpse, wrapped to the neck in what appears to be plastic sheeting. His mouth gapes. She gives the camera the "thumbs up." This is ... |
| 'Ghosts' depicts cruelty Contra Costa Times (California), October 26, 2007 Friday A slim, dark-haired woman grins up at the camera. She perches over a corpse, wrapped to the neck in what appears to be plastic sheeting. His mouth gapes. She gives the camera the "thumbs up." This is ... |
| Congregations to screen documentary on Abu Ghraib: Group hopes viewers move beyond 'emotional response' to documentary and begin to take action Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, California), October 24, 2007 Wednesday Oct. 24--A slim, dark-haired woman grins up at the camera. She perches over a corpse, wrapped to the neck in what appears to be plastic sheeting. His mouth gapes. She gives the camera the "thumbs up."... |
| U.S. editorial excerpts -3- Japan Economic Newswire, October 9, 2007 Tuesday 3:26 PM GMT Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: TORTURED ARGUMENTS (The Wall Street Journal, New York) On current course, U.S. warfighting doctrine will be as tame as a church social. Over the weeke... |
Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), July 7, 2007, Saturday
SHAMEFULLY, some American psychologists participated in interrogating and abusing Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq. This disturbing news is contai...
The Baltimore Sun (Maryland), September 7, 2006 Thursday
Sep. 7--WASHINGTON -- Under the glare of world condemnation for abuse of U.S. detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the Pentagon ordered for the first time yesterday that all of its prisoners in the...
| Human Rights First Statement on Executive Order; Interpreting Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to the CIA PR Newswire, July 20, 2007 Friday 9:11 PM GMT WASHINGTON, July 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Elisa Massimino, Washington Director, Human Rights First: Torture and cruel treatment by U.S. personnel happened, in the ... |
| The Birth of a Torture Program Slate Magazine, August 6, 2007 Monday There are two ways to think about the Bush administration's willingness to torture prisoners in the wake of 9/11. One is the story we were sold after we learned about Abu Ghraib: A few "bad apples" at... |
| Karen Hughes leaving U.S. diplomatic post; She's one of the last of Bush's Texas aides The International Herald Tribune, November 1, 2007 Thursday Karen Hughes, one of the last of President George W. Bush's dwindling circle of Texas advisers, said Wednesday that she would step down this year as the State Department's head of U.S. public diplomac... |
| We must ban secretive U.S. torture Salon.com, October 10, 2007 Wednesday Last Thursday's New York Times alerted the nation to yet another shocking fact about the Bush administration: The Department of Justice authorized the use of extreme interrogation techniques not only ... |
| An open letter to Karen Hughes Salon.com, October 11, 2007 Thursday Karen Hughes Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs U.S. Department of State 2201 C St. NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Karen Hughes: You may recall that we met briefly in Januar... |
| EDITORIAL: Torture bad for U.S. The Herald (Rock Hill, South Carolina), October 14, 2007 Sunday Oct. 14--It's a simple proposition, easy to back up in a variety of ways: Condoning torture is bad policy for the United States. Congress recognized that when it passed an anti-torture law in 2005. Th... |
| Straightening the record; Human rights The Economist, May 13, 2006 Some welcome signs of a change of tone from the Bush administration COULD it be that the penny has finally dropped? Ever since the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, dismay has grown around the... |
| ANATOMY OF A MURDER The Village Voice (New York), February 14, 2006 Tuesday In the introduction to the recently released 532-page Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 (available in book form from Seven Stories Press), executive director Kenneth Roth writes: "The U.S. govern... |
| Protesters target Gonzales Corpus Christi Caller-Times, November 16, 2007 Friday Protesters gathered at the American Bank Center on the sidewalk at the intersection of Hughes Street and North Chaparral Street. Three women wore black head coverings similar to those seen in photogra... |
| For the CIA's eyes only Salon.com, December 8, 2007 Saturday CIA director Michael Hayden said in a statement to employees on Thursday that the agency was seeking to protect its own by destroying at least two videotapes depicting the brutal interrogations of sus... |
| Tortured logic and twisted arguments The Independent (London), December 13, 2005 Tuesday There are no trussed victims of torture being bundled through British airports on CIA-Air flights to Cattle Prod Central in Cairo, Riyadh or Tripoli. There are no American soldiers fighting alongside ... |
| Psychological warfare Salon.com, July 26, 2006 Wednesday The 150,000-member American Psychological Association is facing an internal revolt over its year-old policy that condones the participation of psychologists in the interrogations of prisoners during t... |
| Say it, America: This is not who we are; Torture The International Herald Tribune, October 13, 2007 Saturday Here we go again. That is my numbed but no longer disbelieving reaction to reports that even after Abu Ghraib and the official rejection of the ''torture memo'' penned by John Yoo that authorized any ... |
| Torture advocate: Senate committee should reject Bush nominee The Salt Lake Tribune, July 16, 2006 Sunday Although the Senate Judiciary Committee has not yet voted on the nomination of the Pentagon's general counsel, William J. Haynes II, to the federal bench, a majority appears reluctant to endorse someo... |
| This is America and President is responsible The Australian (Australia), June 5, 2006 Monday It is time for George W. Bush to acknowlege his culpability for the atrocities committed by American soldiers, writes Andrew Sullivan ''THIS is not America.'' Those words were President George W.Bush... |
| Rory Kennedy's revealing documentary is out on DVD Sacramento Bee (California), June 6, 2007 Wednesday The images burn like a scar on the moral face of America: naked Iraqi prisoners placed in humiliating positions by taunting American soldiers; a hooded Iraqi prisoner forced to stand on a box, arms sp... |
| 'Ghosts' Still Haunt; Images of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison stirred Rory Kennedy to seek answers. Now her revealing documentary is out on DVD. Sacramento Bee (California), June 4, 2007 Monday The images burn like a scar on the moral face of America: naked Iraqi prisoners placed in humiliating positions by taunting American soldiers; a hooded Iraqi prisoner forced to stand on a box, arms sp... |
| Ex-interrogator tortured by role in Iraq; What he did at Abu Ghraib may have been 'legal' -- but he still sees it as evil Chicago Sun Times, June 4, 2007 Monday Tony Lagouranis was telling me about how he used to torture people, when he was interrupted by his first customers of the night at the California Clipper. "May I see your IDs please?" he asked, hands ... |
| GOP CANDIDATES MURKY ABOUT TORTURE THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, May 27, 2007 Sunday Presidential candidate John McCain is adamantly against the use of torture in interrogating terrorist suspects, but some of his Republican rivals seem to think it's OK to stop just short of it. After ... |
| Book Review: The Question by Henri Alleg , August 21, 2006 Monday Aug. 21, 2006 (Blogcritics.org delivered by Newstex) -- Within months of the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon held a special screening of the film Battle of Algiers, supposedly to show how and why F... |
| Torture in the name of war is unacceptable University Wire, September 19, 2006 Tuesday The Bush administration's treatment of detainees captured in the global war on terrorism involves the widespread use of torture. It constitutes a grave offense to the values of the American people and... |
| Cruel and Unusual Administration Kmareka.com, September 13, 2006 Wednesday Sep. 13, 2006 (Kmareka.com delivered by Newstex) -- Recently, the U.S. Army revised its field manual on interrogations. The decision to update the manual was, not surprisingly, borne of revelations... |
| Setting the Rules for Interrogations U.S. News & World Report, September 18, 2006 Monday It has been the subject of what Pentagon officials last week referred to as "robust discussion"-and what others might safely call some serious political fighting. The Army Field Manual on interrogatio... |
| Military embraces Geneva for all prisoners UPI, September 7, 2006 Thursday All U.S. military prisoners will be accorded the same humane treatment and will be protected from abusive interrogation practices, Pentagon officials announced Wednesday. The new rules explicitly affo...
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